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There are the gates of the ways of Night and Day, fitted above with a lintel and below with a threshold of stone.

Parmenides, fragment 1

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Love the quotes paired with these majestic coded visuals. Where are the quotes from actually?

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This quote is from fragments by Parmenides of Elea, a presocratic philosopher. I was reading an essay of Francesca Rigotti about darkness and she quotes him when talking about light/darkness dichotomy. Since Barbarians is about dichotomies, I thought it would fit nicely. :)

Thanks for the reference! Got to look that up 🤓📖

I love those early natural philosophy works which reason about how the world works without doing any experiments.

My favorite is “De rerum natura” from Lucretius, who correctly concluded that uniform velocity movement is “natural”, but he arrived at that conclusion using completely bogus arguments 😅

He's most famous for believing that nothingness cannot exist ("whatever is is, and what is not cannot be") which lead to some awesome logical problems. (Such as that movement doesn't exist, because if something moves, it would need to leave nothingness behind, and nothingness does not exist 🖤)

I don't think there is much left of his original work (he lived in 6th-5th century BC), mainly commentaries of posterior philosophers. You can read the remaining fragments on Wikipedia sources: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments_of_Parmenides

Not easy. XD